The legal shell of a one-person software business
A solo software business with an entity chosen for reasons, terms and a privacy policy that describe what the product actually does, GDPR roles, subprocessors and transfers documented, consent that holds up, and EU trader and accessibility duties addressed — all filed in one retrievable folder.
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Ship and sell an app
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Who it's for
Solo founders and teams of two to three running a live or near-live SaaS, app or web product without in-house counsel, especially those whose first enterprise customer, payment provider or store review has asked for a DPA, privacy notice or trader information.
About this playbook
This playbook builds the paperwork a real customer, app store or payment provider will actually ask for before they let you sell. You work in dependency order: confirm where you and your customers are established, choose and register a legal vehicle, inventory every data flow, assign controller and processor roles, then publish terms and a privacy notice that match that inventory rather than a template. It then fixes the three places small makers fail scrutiny — processor contracts and subprocessor lists, cookie and tracker consent, and international transfers — and adds the newer EU duties on trader status and accessibility. It does not replace legal advice, draft your contracts for you, or cover tax returns, intellectual property registration, employment law or fundraising.
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Phase 1: Clarify where you operate and which vehicle fits
4 stepsPhase 2: Inventory what the product does with personal data
5 stepsPhase 3: Register the business and publish paperwork that matches reality
6 stepsPhase 4: Put the one-month and 72-hour clocks where you can meet them
3 stepsPhase 5: Keep the shell retrievable and current
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What you need first
A defined product and how it is sold (direct, via app stores or merchant of record, subscription or one-off), a list of hosting, analytics, email, payment, support and other vendors in production or planned, and access to the product to check what data it actually collects.
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